Unmaking the global sweatshop : health and safety of the world's garment workers / edited by Rebecca Prentice and Geert De Neve.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prentice, Rebecca, editor.

Neve, Geert de, editor.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing workers--Health and hygiene.

Clothing workers.

Sweatshops.

Clothing factories--Safety measures.

Clothing factories.

Clothing trade.

Industrial safety.

Employee rights.

Physical Description:

viii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Summary:

"The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating industry. Over the past thirty years, corporations have widely adopted labor codes on health and safety, yet too often in their working lives, garment workers across the globe encounter death, work-related injuries, and unhealthy factory environments. Disasters such as Rana Plaza notwithstanding, garment workers routinely work under conditions that not only escape public notice but also undermine workers' long-term physical health, mental well-being, and the very sustainability of their employment. Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry to examine the relationship between the politics of labor and initiatives tng and healthy bodies in Sri Lanka's apparel sector / Kanchana N. Ruwanpura -- Toward meaningful health and safety measures: stigma and the devaluation of garment work in Sri Lanka's global factories / Sandya Hewamanne -- Beyond building safety: an ethnographic account of health and well-being on the Bangladesh garment shop floor / Hasan Ashraf -- Afterword: politics after Rana Plaza / Dina M. Siddiqi. o protect workers' health and safety. Contributors analyze both the labor processes required of garment workers as well as the global dynamics of outsourcing and subcontracting that produce such demands on workers' health. The accounts contained in Unmaking the Global Sweatshop trace the histories of labor standards for garment workers in the global South; explore recent partnerships between corporate, state, and civil society actors in pursuit of accountable corporate governance; analyze a breadth of initiatives that seek to improve workers' health standards, from ethical trade projects to human rights movements; and focus on the ways in which risk, health, and safety might be differently conceptualized and regulated. Unmaking the Global Sweatshop argues for an expansive understanding of garment workers' lived experiences that recognizes the politics of labor, human rights, the privatization and individualization of health-related responsibilities as well as the complexity of health aealthy bodies in Sri Lanka's apparel sector / Kanchana N. Ruwanpura -- Toward meaningful health and safety measures: stigma and the devaluation of garment work in Sri Lanka's global factories / Sandya Hewamanne -- Beyond building safety: an ethnographic account of health and well-being on the Bangladesh garment shop floor / Hasan Ashraf -- Afterword: politics after Rana Plaza / Dina M. Siddiqi. nd well-being."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction: rethinking garment workers' health and safety / Geert De Neve and Rebecca Prentice

Sweatshops and the search for solutions, yesterday and today / Jennifer Bair, Mark Anner, and Jeremy Blasi

Voluntary versus binding forms of regulation in global production networks: exploring the "paradoxes of partnership" in the European anti-sweatshop movement / Florence Palpacuer

Sourcing ethical fashion for collegiate apparel: "school house" lessons in business and ethics / Caitrin Lynch and Ingrid Hagen-Keith

Capital over labor: health and safety in export processing zone garment production since 1947 / Patrick Neveling

Discourses of compensation and the normalization of negligence: the experience of the Tazreen factory fire / Mahmudul H. Sumon, Nazneen Shifa, and Saydia Gulrukh

Garment sweatship regimes, the laboring body, and the externalization of social responsibility over health and safety provisions / Alessandra Mezzadri

Limited leave? Clinical provisioning and healthy bodies in Sri Lanka's apparel sector / Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

Toward meaningful health and safety measures: stigma and the devaluation of garment work in Sri Lanka's global factories / Sandya Hewamanne

Beyond building safety: an ethnographic account of health and well-being on the Bangladesh garment shop floor / Hasan Ashraf

Afterword: politics after Rana Plaza / Dina M. Siddiqi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0812249399

9780812249392

OCLC:

980494549